Holopaw - Academy Songs Volume 1
Label.........................: Misra
Genre.........................: Indie
StoreDate.....................: Jan-15-2013
Source........................: CDDA
Grabber.......................: Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode)
Encoding Scheme...............: Lame 3.98.4 V0 VBR Joint-Stereo
Size..........................: 68.19 MB
Total Playing Time............: 39:27
Release Notes:
Holopaw is a long-loved independent rock band from Gainesville, FL.
Academy Songs, Volume I, HolopawÆs Misra Records debut, takes the band
to never-treaded levels. Through three records on SUB POP and a
collaboration with Modest MouseÆs Isaac Brock (Ugly Casanova), frontman
John Orth has honed his gift for lyricism, storytelling, and delivery.
Now, backed by a variant possessing uncanny chemistry (complete with
identical twin brothers), weÆve been graced with an unparalleled,
breathtaking Holopaw album.
Over a ten-song cycle, the close quarters of an all-boys preparatory
academy, and the world beyond its ôivied walls,ö become the sites of
devotion, betrayal, communion (or near-communion), and abject
loneliness. The joys and thrills and dangers of both discovery and
transgression are detailed. ôThe rising and falling of their little
livesö is illuminated in stunning imagery.
Jeremy Scott drove his Civil Defense Studio down from Brooklyn to record
Academy Songs in a St. Augustine beach house. Serendipitously, the
physical intimacy of the experience seemed to mirror the boys academy
detailed in song. Holopaw lived, worked, cooked, and swam together.
Their world consisted of playing music and cutting paths from beach
house to beach and back again. Long days recording were celebrated over
homemade horchata, fish tacos, and a different flavor of hand-churned
ice cream each night (ginger lime and peach brown sugar standing out as
favorites). A night swim would commence, followed by recording into the
dark and light of morning.
PawÆs Patrick Quinney summarized the experience upon returning: ôYou
know that feeling you have after swimming and getting a lot of sun,
where you seem to experience every little thingûfood, rest, humor,
musicûas a kind of deep physical and spiritual luxury? We have been
asked by a surprising number of people if the recording got æbeachyÆ out
there: in the sense that we made it entirely in an atmosphere of that
physical and spiritual luxury, I would have to say that it did. I
certainly hope that everything that sounded good or seemed like a great
idea at the time will continue to do so after the last of the sand is
out of our shoes.
Tracklisting
01. Academy 1:39
02. Golden Sparklers 5:31
03. Diamonds 5:05
04. Bedfellows Farewell 2:49
05. Dirty Boots (He Don't) 3:13
06. We Are The Virgin Snow 5:55
07. Discotheque 3:20
08. Infidels 4:00
09. Chapperelles 0:48
10. The Lights From The Disco 4:39
11. Golden Years 2:28
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